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"— Allow me to be the first person to ever say this: It all begins with Tom Brady, who is so unbeatable at home we should all start calling it Giselle Stadium."

Wonder if Tom would still nickname it "The Razor"?

"The Brazilian"

__________________"It says a lot," a 25-year-old fan reflected, "that the greatest moment in my life is a Week 3 win over New England." I AM PATRIOTS

bay(1/22/15) "The NFL should employ Mona Lisa Vito to calibrate football pressure."
Belichick (1/24/15) “I would not say I’m the Mona Lisa Vito of the football world as she was in the car expertise area.”

Speaking of which, I know Phil Simms adheres to the Papal Infallibility Doctrine for Quarterbacks, but he embarrassed himself talking about Tannehill, which is hard for him to do. “Franchise” quarterback? Really? Because he went 18-for-19 against that defense-like substance the Houston Texans trotted out there last week? Late in the game Devin McCourty came with a blitz from the right side, right in full view of Tannehill. A blitz that he couldn’t have telegraphed more if he’d reserved a time using the SafetyBlitzify app. And still Tannehill took the sack.

__________________"Coach [Bill] Belichick always used to say, 'I don't give a s--- about our defense giving up yards; all I care about is scoring defense, turnovers and the red zone,'" Woody said. "That's really the key to football. A lot of coaches pound their chest and say, 'I've got the No. 1 defense.'
"That number doesn't mean anything."

"— Thursday Night Football really is a terrible idea. The human body simply is not built to play two pro football games in 96 hours. The defensive linemen all have their hands on their hips. The ends are gasping for air. Offensive linemen are slow to get up just so they can catch their breath. It looks like every cardio class in America on Jan. 2."

It wouldn't surprise me if next year the Patriots happen to be scheduled a Thursday night game against a team that was coming off a bye. Jets, perhaps?

— You simply can’t give Dave DeGuglielmo enough credit for the job he’s doing with the offensive line. To take the hits that unit has and deliver 129 yards rushing for LeGarrette Blount, 4.7 yards per carry for the team and zero sacks of Tom Brady is impressive. To do it with a second-year backup right tackle at left tackle and a tight end and center alternating at right tackle is nothing less than astonishing. All I could think of was the NASA engineers in “Apollo 13′” being told “We need to make this, fit into this, using nothing but … this.” And like them, Gugs came up huge.

__________________I AM PATRIOTS

"Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, "Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Patriots again and that son-of-a-f*cking-bitch Belichick". Paraphrasing George S. Patton

In a stat-happy world of advanced analytics and fantasy football geeks, it’s time to stop punishing quarterbacks for interceptions that clearly are the receiver’s fault. For instance, the ball Pierre Garcon put up in the air like a Stomp Rocket to Logan Ryan or the pick-six Edelman caused a few weeks ago. There’s no reason they can’t call that an error on the receiver instead of an interception by the QB.

Agreed. It would be like calling a bad pass to a receiver a "drop" instead of a "poor throw".

__________________"Coach [Bill] Belichick always used to say, 'I don't give a s--- about our defense giving up yards; all I care about is scoring defense, turnovers and the red zone,'" Woody said. "That's really the key to football. A lot of coaches pound their chest and say, 'I've got the No. 1 defense.'
"That number doesn't mean anything."

I assume that “ATM” patch on the Giants uniforms is a memorial for some member of the Mara family? I hope so. Because if it’s how that term is used on some of the sites I go to, they’ve got some ‘splaining to do.

It took me a minute but

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jerry Thornton

This is not a knock on the offense he had out there, but there is an old Mongol expression that applies here: “An army of donkeys led by a lion will defeat an army of lions led by a donkey.”

I absolutely love this quote. I'd never heard it before but it is 100% true.

__________________"Coach [Bill] Belichick always used to say, 'I don't give a s--- about our defense giving up yards; all I care about is scoring defense, turnovers and the red zone,'" Woody said. "That's really the key to football. A lot of coaches pound their chest and say, 'I've got the No. 1 defense.'
"That number doesn't mean anything."

..."Guy's in front of 80,000 people. Eighty-thousand people saw it, everybody's sideline saw it, everybody sees our guy in front of 80,000 people. There he is. It was wrong, we were disciplined for it. That's it. We never did it again. We're never gonna do it again. Anything else that's close we're not gonna do, either."

"Some day I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, "Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Patriots again and that son-of-a-f*cking-bitch Belichick". Paraphrasing George S. Patton

I thought Brady’s best throw all night was the deep crosser to Amendola with Corey Graham coming through the a-gap all up in his business.

Agreed. That was the one where right before the snap, Brady screamed BRUSCHI and I screamed at my bewildered husband, "I BET THAT MEANS THERE IS GOING TO BE AN A GAP BLITZ I BET...JUST LIKE TEDY USED TO DO, TIMED UP JUST RIGHT TO HIT THE L.O.S. AT THE SNAP!!"

Next week, they can call it RODNEY.

__________________"Coach [Bill] Belichick always used to say, 'I don't give a s--- about our defense giving up yards; all I care about is scoring defense, turnovers and the red zone,'" Woody said. "That's really the key to football. A lot of coaches pound their chest and say, 'I've got the No. 1 defense.'
"That number doesn't mean anything."

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